In order to understand Brazilian populations
May 31, 2019 5:56 pm Leave your thoughtsFrancisco Salzano bolstered genetic research of the country’s human populations
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Science pioneer
May 31, 2019 5:56 pm Leave your thoughtsWarwick Kerr trained teams and directed research institutions, and was always attentive to the use of scientific knowledge
Paths of reconstruction
May 31, 2019 5:56 pm Leave your thoughtsUNESCO specialists will help Brazil rebuild the São Cristóvão Palace using modern security techniques
In memoriam
May 31, 2019 5:55 pm Leave your thoughtsThe National Museum's Historical Archives, which were consumed by the fire, will be reconstituted based on records made over the years on a variety of media
The hidden lives of museum collections
May 31, 2019 5:55 pm Leave your thoughtsPreservation of museum collections involves complex work and multidisciplinary teams
Brother in the North
May 31, 2019 5:54 pm Leave your thoughtsEmílio Goeldi Museum of Pará reaches 152nd anniversary with 4.5 million items preserved, but few protected
The roots of knowledge
May 31, 2019 5:54 pm Leave your thoughtsInstalled a decade ago in its own building at Quinta da Boa Vista, the herbarium survived intact
Saved fauna
May 31, 2019 5:53 pm Leave your thoughtsThe National Museum and USP Zoology Museum hold vast animal collections that can be difficult to preserve
The ruins of rare stones
May 31, 2019 5:43 pm Leave your thoughtsThe geology and paleontology collection at the National Museum contained 70,000 pieces, such as meteorites, unique pterosaurs, and mineral specimens from the Portuguese royal family
Niède Guidon: “I’m going to open the Museum of Nature and then I will rest”
May 31, 2019 5:42 pm Leave your thoughtsAfter four decades in the Serra da Capivara, the archaeologist confirms that she will leave Piauí after the opening of the new exhibition space
A new window on the sertão
May 31, 2019 5:42 pm Leave your thoughtsThe foundation created by archaeologist Niède Guidon is set to inaugurate its Museum of Nature in December at Serra da Capivara National Park in Piauí
Prehistory in pieces
May 31, 2019 5:41 pm Leave your thoughtsThe skull of Luzia and a 2,800-year-old Egyptian mummy were among the more than 100,000 items in the archaeology and biological anthropology collections
Rebuilding heritage
May 31, 2019 5:41 pm Leave your thoughtsPartnerships with indigenous peoples and community associations will be decisive to the restoration of ethnographic and linguistic collections
Studies in jeopardy
May 31, 2019 5:35 pm Leave your thoughtsFire affects six of the institution’s graduate programs, of which two are world-class
Memories indelible by fire
May 31, 2019 5:33 pm Leave your thoughtsFor 200 years, the National Museum contributed knowledge in the natural sciences and inspired the creation of several other science museums
Centers for generating knowledge
May 31, 2019 5:32 pm Leave your thoughtsUniversity museums organize exhibitions, administer graduate programs, and do research
Strategies to keep museums healthy
May 31, 2019 5:31 pm Leave your thoughtsFinancial sustainability and flexible management are challenges facing museum managers
Dashed hopes
May 31, 2019 5:28 pm Leave your thoughtsThe National Museum was preparing for a revitalization project when it was obliterated by fire
The pain of loss
May 31, 2019 5:19 pm Leave your thoughtsSix hours of fire destroyed 200 years of heritage at the largest natural-history museum in Latin America
Innovation, climate, and sustainable development
May 31, 2019 5:19 pm Leave your thoughtsAmerican researchers were awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics for their contributions to integrating innovation and climate change policies into the analysis of long-term economic growth
Combating sexual violence as a weapon of war
May 31, 2019 5:14 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to Iraqi activist Nadia Murad and Congolese gynecologist Denis Mukwege
Directed protein evolution
May 31, 2019 5:13 pm Leave your thoughtsThe Nobel Prize in Chemistry was shared by three researchers who controlled genetic changes and selective processes in a laboratory
More powerful lasers and optical tweezers
May 31, 2019 5:13 pm Leave your thoughtsIn physics, Nobel acknowledged the work of two researchers who created a way of producing more powerful laser sources, and a third scientist who expanded their use to investigate phenomena on the scale of cells and atomic particles
Immunotherapy for fighting cancer
May 31, 2019 5:13 pm Leave your thoughtsTwo immunologists shared the 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
DNA helps track ivory traffickers
May 31, 2019 5:13 pm Leave your thoughtsGenetic studies are helping to shape government policies against international ivory trafficking in the US and Africa
Twenty years since it first launched, SciELO announces preprints platform
May 31, 2019 5:13 pm Leave your thoughtsSciELO announced plans to create a preprints repository in partnership with the Public Knowledge Project
Marco Antonio Zago is new FAPESP president
May 31, 2019 5:12 pm Leave your thoughtsMarco Antonio Zago took over as president of FAPESP on the morning of October 5
Higgs, a well-behaved boson
May 31, 2019 5:12 pm Leave your thoughtsPhysicists have been investigating how the Higgs boson particle interacts with others
405-year-old letter suggests Galileo toned down his beliefs
May 31, 2019 5:02 pm Leave your thoughtsA letter found at the Royal Society in London suggests that Galileo Galilei softened his stance against the ecclesiastical doctrine that the Sun orbited Earth to avoid arrest by the Roman Inquisition
Vibrations created by light in mirrors
May 31, 2019 5:02 pm Leave your thoughtsAn international group of researchers accurately isolated and measured the vibrations generated when a beam of light touches the surface of a mirror and is reflected back